Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology by Jess Zimmerman
$42.99 AUD
Category: Gender Studies
A fresh cultural analysis of female monsters from Greek mythology, and an invitation for all women to reclaim these stories as inspiration for a more wild, more monstrous version of feminism The folklore that has shaped our dominant culture teems with frightening female creatures. In our language, in ou ...Show more
Women in Revolt - Art and Activism in the UK 1970-90 by Linsey Young (Editor); Alice Correia
$69.99 AUD
Category: Cultural Studies
Women in Revolt! is a crucial exploration of the wealth and diversity of work by women artists working in the 1970s and 1980s during a period of seismic social and political change. Across a wide variety of mediums including painting, drawing, sculpture, performance, film and photography, this exten ...Show more
Women of a Certain Rage by Liz Byrski
$29.99 AUD
Category: Gender Studies
Selected and introduced by Liz Byrski Contributors- Anne Aly, Nadine Browne, Nandi Chinna, Claire G. Coleman, Carrie Cox, Eva Cox, Sarah Drummond, Carly Findlay, Goldie Goldbloom, Rafeif Ismail, Margot Kingston, Jay Martin, Meg McKinlay, Olivia Muscat, Mihaela Nicolescu, Renee Pettitt-Schipp, Fiona Stan ...Show more
Women on Porn: One hundred stories. One vital conversation
$35.00 AUD
Category: Gender Studies
Women to the Front by Heather Sheard; Ruth Lee
$34.99 AUD
Category: Gender Studies
At the outbreak of World War I, 129 women were registered as medical practitioners in Australia, and many of them were eager to contribute their skills and expertise to the war effort. For the military establishment, however, the notion of women doctors serving on the battlefield was unthinkable. Undau ...Show more
Women's Work: A Reckoning with Home and Help by Megan Stack
$32.99 AUD
Category: Gender Studies
When Megan Stack left her prestigious job as a foreign correspondent to have a baby and to work from her home in Beijing writing a book, she quickly realised that childcare and housework would consume the time she needed to write. This dilemma was resolved in the manner of many upper-class families and ...Show more
Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language by Amanda Montell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Gender Studies
A brash, enlightening and wildly entertaining feminist look at gendered language and the way it shapes us. English is scattered with perfectly innocuous words that have devolved into insults hurled at women. The word 'bitch' originally meant male or female genitalia. 'Hussy' was simply a housewife, and ...Show more
Work. Love. Body.: Future Women by Jamila Rizvi, Helen McCabe
$32.99 AUD
Category: Gender Studies
The future lives of women have changed drastically. As a growing number of women agitate for change, it is time to demand what women want. Through the lenses of work, love, and body, this powerful and essential essay collection asks: Will the Australia of tomorrow be more equal than the one we were born ...Show more
X +Y - A Mathematician's Manifesto for Rethinking Gender by Eugenia Cheng
$34.99 AUD
Category: Gender Studies
From imaginary numbers to the fourth dimension and beyond, mathematics has always been about imagining impossible things. In x+y, Eugenia Cheng draws on the insights of higher-dimensional mathematics to reveal a transformative new way of talking about the patriarchy, mansplaining and sexism: a way that ...Show more
Xi Jinping - The Backlash by Richard McGregor
$12.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: Pengun Special
Xi Jinping has transformed China at home and abroad with a speed and aggression that few foresaw when he came to power in 2012. Finally, he is meeting resistance, both at home among disgruntled officials and disillusioned technocrats, and abroad from an emerging coalition of Western nations that seem de ...Show more
Yes We (Still) Can by Dan Pfeiffer
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
'An entertaining work of memoir-cum-political strategy' Publishers Weekly The Decade of Obama (2007-2017) was one of massive change that rewrote the rules of politics in ways we are only now beginning to understand (which is why we all got 2016 wrong). Yes We (Still) Can looks at how Obama navigated th ...Show more
Yes to the City: Millennials and the Fight for Affordable Housing by Max Holleran
$34.99 AUD
Category: Cultural Studies
A fascinating account of the growing "Yes in My Backyard" urban movement The exorbitant costs of urban housing and the widening gap in income inequality are fueling a combative new movement in cities around the world. A growing number of influential activists aren't waiting for new public housing to be ...Show more